Iconic city grinds to a standstill while ice attacks are hiding many migrating employees

Heavily armed ice officers stormed a popular park in the center of Los Angeles as mayor on Monday Karen -Bas The federal ‘military operation’.

Immigration agents were seen by MacArthur Park and drove through the streets in armored tanks, while some patrolled on horseback.

The Democratic Mayor closed the show of violence as a ‘political stunt’ intended to ‘terrorize immigrants’ while arriving to confront the agents.

“This morning I went to MacArthur Park, where I saw federal agents, military vehicles and federal troops – another example of the administration that the chaos sustained by focusing on a military operation in our American city,” she said.

“What I saw today looked like a city besieged and under occupation.”

Bass said that children were in the summer camp when the ice officers descended to the park.

“To have deployed armored vehicles in the streets of our city, to federalize the National Guard, to have the American Marines who have been trained to kill abroad, used in our city is all outrageous and it is on-American,” she added.

The mayor emphasized that “there are entire sectors of our economy that depend on immigrants.”

The constant raids over Los Angeles have led the migrant workforce to hide, which led to concern about the Sanctuary City already rocky economic state.

As the California City tries Restore forest firesCompanies and developers have revealed that they do not have the manpower to do these crucial tasks.

LA has one of the largest immigrants of the nation, with almost 38 percent of employees from the US, according to data from 2023.

Estimates of the Public Policy Institute of California then suggest one in 10 employees in the golden state are immigrants without papers, while the Migration policy institute Reports There are approximately 950,000 ‘non -authorized’ residents in La County.

Donald TrumpThe immigration slice of immigration has caused a considerable part of LA’s workers – especially after a recent attack of raids.

“Papers or not, fear spreads rapidly,” said real estate agency Hilgard -founder -director Joshua Baum Bloomberg.

“When employees do not feel safe for vacancies, this not only slows down the pace of construction, but also the willingness to propose new projects in the first place.”

Between 6 and 22 June, immigration agents arrested more than 1,600 people in LA, Bloomberg reported.

On a fourth July, Carwash Raid attracted the attention of City or West Hollywood -officials, who convicted the Sweep that morning.

Agents were only about 10 minutes, but held at least two employees, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Federal officials confirmed the next day that 37 employees at A la Home Depot were also taken into custody During the week.

As a result of this Persistent ice presenceWork locations are abandoned and the construction and renovation projects are delayed.

“We don’t have enough people to staff the work and we do it to find out,” said Arturo Snider, the CEO of Primestor, who manages more than 3,000 projects for apartment development and $ 1.2 billion in shopping centers, to Bloomberg.

Contribute to what many see as a labor crisisMore than 16,000 structures were destroyed by forest fires from Pacific Palisades to Altadena.

The damage can cost more than $ 250 billion, the Los Angeles Times reported.

To tackle the rebuilding of the affected areas, the Urban Land Institute Reporting 70,000 employees will have to be added to the 145,000 building force of LA County in mid -2026.

According to the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp, about 14.5 percent of LA building workers have

La officials, as well as Governor of California Gavin Newsom, have fought strongly against the efforts of the federal government To arrest immigrants without papers.

During the anti-ice riots That broke from the beginning of June, Trump sent 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines to LA to intervene and to protect federal ownership.

California has filed a lawsuit on the use of the National Guard after the first effort and claimed that Trump has ‘trampled’ the sovereignty of the state and the state and the state has ‘trampled’ and Sent troops without the permission of the governor.

In the meantime, city officials said that the demonstrations will ultimately cost taxpayers $ 32 million.

Last week Trump La sued because he did not comply with federal agents.

Bass promised to fight the court case and claimed that the raids cause “Serious economic damage.”

“We know that Los Angeles is the test case and we will be strong,” said Bass.

“We do this because the people have gone out of the city and have been chased by parking spaces, our colleagues, our neighbors, our family members and they are Angelenos.”

During the downtown sweep on Monday morning, Fox 11 reported that Bas rushed to the stage and shouted the needs of the agents to leave now because this is unacceptable ‘,

Officials of West Hollywood wrote in their Friday statement: “We confirm again: our immigrant communities are not threats – they deliver vital contributors to the social, cultural and economic fabric of our city, our state and our nation.”

While local officials have focused on the Trump government for the alarming economic state of LA, the Ministry of Interior Security (DHS) has given a blunt reaction.

“If there was any correlation between unbridled illegal immigration and a good economy, Biden would have had a flourishing economy,” DHS assistant -Secretary Tricia McLaughlin wrote to Bloomberg.